Door-hanger.



No. 75,373. y Patented Dec. '9, I9D2 f JQI'IANDSCHUMCHER.

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DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming pari-of Letters Patent N 0. 715,373, dated.December 9,1902. Application led December 24, 1901. Serial No. 87.128.(No model.)

To all when@ iz; may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN HANDsoenna-Y fornia, have invented certain newand use-v ful Improvements in Door-Hangers, ot' which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in hangers for sliding doors, oneobject of my invention being to provide an apparatus of this characterso constructed and which can be so connected to the door as to require avery narrow slot in the header or upper jamb of the door, in which saidhanger moves, thereby to a much greater extent excluding dust and draftsand also providing a much neater and more attractive finish to the doorthan has been possible with hangers requiring a wide slot in which tomove. f

A further object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of thischaracter which can be assembled and put in place with the leastpossible expenditure of labor and time and also without having to removeparts of the side jambe of the door for that purpose.

A further object of the invention is to provide improved means forreducing the noises gade by the movement and stoppage of the oor.

My invention therefore resides in the novel construction, combination,and arrangement of parts for the above ends, hereinafter fully specifiedand particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side elevation of a pair ofdoors equipped with my improved hangers, certain parts of the casing ofthe door being broken away to show the construction. Fig. 2 is anenlarged cross-section on the line A A of Fig.` l. Fig. 3 is across-section on the line B B of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a cross-section onthe line C C of Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line D Dof Fig. l. Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the upper edge of the door,showing the groove or trough therein, the hinge member attached to saiddoor being removed. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the under side ofsaid hinge member detached. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of thehinge-pintle and the key thereof detached. Fig. 9 is a cross-section onthe member.

line E E of Fig. 3. Fig. l0 is a cross-section on the line F F of Fig.3. Fig. llis a detail of the pin for limiting the movement of the screw.Fig. 12 is a broken perspective view of a portion of the jamb-header,showing the rubber block therein. Fig. 13 is a perspective View of therubber block detached. Fig. 14 is a perspective View of the plate forsupporting the rubber block in place detached.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that I 2 represent slidingdoors, and I have for the purpose of illustration shown the door l ontheleft as a double-paneled door and the door 2 on the right as asingle-paneled door. The hangers for suspending the double-paneled doorl each require a pair of rollers, While for the sin gle-paneled dooronly a single roller is necessary to support the hangers; otherwise theconstruction of the hanger for each door will be the same and thedescription of one will suffice for the other.

The upperedge ofthe door is formed at each end with a groove or trough3, in which is secured a plate 4, having formed on its under sidepintle-knuckles 5, constituting a hinge Said hinge member extendsdownward into said groove, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. It is formed withopenings between said knuckles 5 wherein lie thelknuckles 6 of the loweredge of the plate '7, which forms the lower section of the hanger, whichknuckles G constitute the other member of the hinge and may be seated inalinement with said knuckles 5, the two membersl being connectl ed by apintle 8, whereby the door is pivotally secured to the hanger to havelateral movement. Said pintle Sis inserted through saidY knuckles bybeing first laid in an extension 9 of the groove 3 of less depth thanthe groove proper, so that the point of the pintle is in line with theeyes of the knuckles, and is then pushed forward by means of a key 10,hinged, as shown at 11, to said pintle. In this operation the keyextends outward or transversely to the door, so as to permit of itsbeing grasped by the ngers, thus permitting the pintle to be inserted.After the pintle has been pushed into place the key will be swung backinto the extension 9 of the groove and will lie in said extension and byits position therein will prevent accidental removal of the pintle. Whenit is desired to remove IOC) the pintle to separate the door from thehangers, the key can be readily fished out of the extension, and bymeans thereof the pintle can be drawn out of the hinge members.

The lower hinge-section comprises a plate '7, of sheet metal, bentinward in the middle, as shown at 12, so that the lower portion thereofis substantially in the same vertical plane as the rail 13, upon whichthe rollers travel, while the upper portion is outside of said plane andhas its sides bent around to engage flanges 14, formed upon'the upperhanger-section 15, and thus guide said lower section upon the uppersection. Said upper hanger-section when suspended from a single rollercarries the axle 16 itself of said roller, while when suspended from adouble roller it carriesthe beam 17, in which are secured the axles 16of said rollers. Said upper section has a central cavity 1S, in whichslides a nut 19, secured, as shown at 20, to the lower hanger-section,and through said nut is screwed a screw 21, said screw rotating in upperand lower bearings 22 23 in said section 15, so that by the rotation ofsaid screw the nut may be raised or lowered. The screw is held up in theupper hanger-section by means of a split pin 24, which is passed throughsaid screw and the ends thereof bent around, as shown in Fig. 10. Thusby turning said screw the relative position of the upper and lowerhanger-sections may be adjusted to raise or lower the door, as may bedesired. In order to provide access to said screws for this purpose, thejamb-header 25 is apertured, as shown at 26, through which aperture ascrew-driver can be inserted to engage the screw, said aperture beingafterward covered by the finishing-stop 27. The upper hanger-section isprovided with the stops 23, limiting the upper movement of saidsection,and thus preventing the rollers jumping the rail. Said rollersroll upon a trackrail 13, made of a strip of hard wood letinto a rabbet3l in a track-support 32 and secured by nails, as shown at 33, therein,a strip of paper, felt, or. other sound-deadening material beinginterposed between said rail and track. This'construction of providingahardwood rail instead of a metallic rail permits of nails being used, sothat the apparatus can be put in place in a much shorter time and morecheaply than with the other construction.

The jamb-header 25 above the door is formed with a slot 34, in which thehanger tra-vels, and it will be observed that by the above constructionsaid slot can be made extremely narrow, especially in comparison withprior devices, whereas in prior constructions the slot in which thehanger moves has been about aninchinwidth. Withmydevicetheslotdoes notneed to be more than one-eighth of an inch in width. In order to limitthe Inovement of the doors, there is provided a stop 35, formed of ablock of rubber tapering upward and let into a similarly-shaped socketleave said slot when the door is pushed back.

In order to insure the latter entering the slot when the door is againclosed, said slot is enlarged or ared at its entrance, as shown at 37 inFig. 5.

In order to assist in deadening the sound caused by the movement of thedoor, washers 38, of felt, are interposed between the rollers and thebearings therefor, and the hinge-pintle is also surrounded by a sleeve39, of felt, which thus intervenes between said pintle and the hingemembers.

I claim- 1. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, a door, aslotted header above the door, and a hanger comprising an upper sectionand a lower section, the lower section passing through said slot, and ascrew, the head of which is above said header, and the stem of whichextends upwardly .therefrom and adjustably connects said upper and lowersections, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, a door, a slotted headerabove the door, a hanger comprising an upper section and a lowersection, the lower section being passed through said slot and a screwthe head of which is above said header and the stem of which extendsupwardly therefrom and adjustably connects said upper and lowersections, said header having an aperture at the side of the slotpermitting access to said screwhead to operate the same, substantiallyas described.

3. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, a door, a slottedheader, an upper hangersection suspended from the roller, a lowerhanger-section bent inward so that its lower end is substantially in thevertical plane of the roller, said lower end so bent inward being passedthrough said slot and being connected to the upper edge of the door, anut attached to one of said sections, and a screw the head of which isabove the header and the stem of which extends upwardly therefrom andengages said nut, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, an upper hanger-sectionsuspended'from said roller, a lower hanger-section bent inward so thatthe lower end of said section is substantially in the vertical plane ofthe roller, a screw working in the upper section, a nut supporting thelower section, and engaged by said screw, a door suspended from thelower hanger-section, and a header having a slot through which the lowersection moves, said header having an aperture in the vertical planethrough which the said screw IIO can be moved to be operated throughsaid aperture, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a track-rail, a roller thereon, an upperhanger-section supported from said roller,a lower hanger-section formedof sheet metal having sides turned over to form guides to guide saidlower section upon the upper section and having its lower portion bentupward to form a hinge member, means for adjusting said lower sectionupon said upper section,and a door carrying a hinge member cooperatingwith the hinge member of the hanger-section, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, a hanger suspended fromsaid roller, a knuckle secured on the lower end of said hanger, a doorhaving a groove vin its upper edge, a plate secured to said upper edgeand having a knuckle extending downward into said groove, said groovebeing of sufficient length to permit the hanger-knuckle to extend alsointo said groove in alinement with the plate-knuckle, and a pintlethrough said knuckles, su bstantially as described.

7. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, a hanger suspended fromsaid roller, the lower end of said hanger being bent upward toform ahinge member, a door having a groove in its upper edge, a plate securedto said upper edge and having a hinge member extending into said groove,and a hinge-pintle for connecting said hinge vmembers together,substantially as described.

S. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, a han ger-platesuspended from said roller, a slotted header through which the lower endof said hanger-plate passes, a door having a horizontal groove sunk inits upper edge, the lower end of said han ger-plate extending into saidgroove and a connection between said plate and the door, said connectionbeing wholly within the groove and between the Vertical faces of thedoor, substantially as described.

9. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, a hangersuspended fromsaid roller,adoor suspended from said hanger, a slotted header in theslot of which said hanger moves, said header having a socket formed byrecesses on each side of said slot, and a removable stop secured in saidsocket, substantially as described.

10. The combination of a rail, a roller thereon, a bangersuspended fromsaid roller,a door suspended from said hanger, a slotted header in theslot of which said hanger moves, said header having an upwardly-taperingsocket formed by recesses on each side of said slot, anupwardly-tapering stop in said socket, and a plate secured to saidheader beneath said stop, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOHN HANDSCHUMACHER.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, CEQILIA PowNNe,

